item: #1 of 8 id: 10692 author: Cooke, John Esten title: A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee date: None words: 175397 flesch: 60 summary: One such incident took place on the 7th, when General Gregg attacked with about six thousand horse, but was met, defeated, and captured by General Fitz Lee, to the great satisfaction of General Lee, who said to his son, General W.H.F. Lee: Keep your command together and in good spirits, general--don't let them think of surrender--I will get you out of this. I.--The Funeral of General Lee II.--Tributes to General Lee A LIFE OF GENERAL ROBERT EDWARD LEE. keywords: advance; adversary; armies; army; artillery; attack; battle; campaign; cavalry; chancellorsville; character; city; column; commander; confederate; corps; country; day; e. lee; enemy; federal; fire; fitz lee; force; fredericksburg; general fitz; general jackson; general johnston; general lee; general mcclellan; general robert; general scott; general sedgwick; good; grant; great; ground; hill; hooker; house; left; life; line; march; meade; men; military; moment; movement; new; north; northern; officer; order; people; place; point; position; rear; result; retreat; richmond; right; river; road; soldier; south; states; struggle; stuart; time; troops; united; virginia; war; washington cache: 10692.txt plain text: 10692.txt item: #2 of 8 id: 38418 author: Longstreet, James title: From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America date: None words: 236892 flesch: 65 summary: Information of Federal Force and Positions brought by the Scout Harrison--General Lee declines to credit it--General Longstreet suggests a Change of Direction in Conformance with the Revelation--General Meade had succeeded Hooker in Command Five Days before Battle--Positions on the Eve of the First Day-- Confederate Cavalry not in sight--The Eyes of the Army sadly needed--A Description of the Famous Battle-field-- Generals Ewell and A. P. Hill engage the Federals--Death of General John F. Reynolds--The Fight on Seminary Ridge--General Hancock in Federal Command on the Field--Concerning the Absent Cavalry and Information given by the Scout--Conditions at the Close of the First Day's Fight 346 CHAPTER XXVII. The Author reverts to the Perils and Opportunities in the West--Proposes to the Secretary of War to reinforce against Rosecrans from the Army of Northern Virginia--Makes Plan known to General Lee--The Move finally effected--Difficulties of Transportation--A Roundabout Route--General Longstreet narrowly escapes capture when seeking Bragg's Head-quarters--General Bragg assigns Longstreet to Command of the Left--Instructions for the Battle of Chickamauga--The Armies in Position--Federals in Command of Generals Rosecrans, Crittenden, McCook, and George H. Thomas 433 CHAPTER XXXI. BATTLE OF CHICKAMAUGA. keywords: 1st; advance; anderson; army; army corps; artillery; attack; batteries; battery; battle; bridge; brig.-gen; brigade; burnside; campaign; capt; cavalry; col; colonel; column; command; commander; commanding; confederate; corps; crossing; day; division; early; east; enemy; ewell; federal; field; fire; force; fort; fredericksburg; gap; general bragg; general d.; general franklin; general george; general gibbon; general halleck; general hill; general j.; general jackson; general jenkins; general johnston; general joseph; general lee; general longstreet; general martin; general mcclellan; general ord; general pendleton; general sheridan; general smith; general stuart; general taylor; general thomas; general william; gettysburg; grant; ground; guard; guns; head; hood; hooker; house; infantry; james; left; letter; lieut.-col; lieutenant; line; little; longstreet; maj; major; manassas; march; mclaws; men; miles; morning; mountain; near; new; night general; north; o'clock; officers; open; orders; pickett; plan; point; pope; position; potomac; president; quarters; rear; regiments; report; retreat; richmond; right; river; road; second; service; south; strong; tennessee; thought; time; time general; troops; union; virginia; war; way; west; william; work cache: 38418.txt plain text: 38418.txt item: #3 of 8 id: 4257 author: McElroy, John title: Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons — Volume 1 date: None words: 41175 flesch: 71 summary: Men and officers of lower grades may be exchanged for officers of a higher grade, and men and officers of different services may be exchanged according to the following scale of equivalents: A General-commanding-in-chief, or an Admiral, shall be exchanged for officers of equal rank, or for sixty privates or common seamen. I recommend this to other young men starting on their career. keywords: andersonville; army; building; camp; chapter; cold; company; country; day; days; exchange; face; feet; field; fire; force; gap; general; good; government; ground; guard; half; hands; horse; left; life; line; man; men; miles; morning; new; night; number; officers; party; place; prisoners; rations; rebels; richmond; second; sergeant; soldiers; south; thought; time; virginia; war; way; work cache: 4257.txt plain text: 4257.txt item: #4 of 8 id: 4258 author: McElroy, John title: Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons — Volume 2 date: None words: 49246 flesch: 71 summary: After he has found the number of square feet that each man had for sleeping apartment, dining room, kitchen, exercise grounds and outhouses, and decided that nobody could live for any length of time in such contracted space, I will tell him that a few weeks later double that many men were crowded upon that space that over thirty-five thousand were packed upon those twelve and a-half or thirteen acres. First, that there were many more men in that Army than in any other; and second, that the entanglement in the dense thickets and shrubbery of the Wilderness enabled both sides to capture great numbers of the other's men. keywords: andersonville; army; boys; cases; company; confederate; corps; day; dead; death; feet; field; gangrene; general; good; ground; guards; half; hand; hill; hospital; key; left; life; line; man; men; month; new; number; officers; outside; prisoners; raiders; rear; rebel; regiment; right; saw; scurvy; sick; states; stockade; surgeon; time; water; way; wirz; works cache: 4258.txt plain text: 4258.txt item: #5 of 8 id: 4259 author: McElroy, John title: Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons — Volume 3 date: None words: 45568 flesch: 70 summary: We recalled our promise to keep in the Creek, the experience of other boys who had tried to escape and been caught by the hounds. Other boys occupied the rest in a similar manner. keywords: andersonville; army; boys; camp; cases; chapter; company; condition; corn; country; creek; crowd; davis; day; days; death; exchange; feet; food; frank; gangrene; good; ground; guard; half; hospital; inside; left; life; line; little; man; maryland; men; morning; new; night; outside; prisoners; rations; rebels; rest; savannah; scurvy; stockade; thought; time; war; water; way; work cache: 4259.txt plain text: 4259.txt item: #6 of 8 id: 4260 author: McElroy, John title: Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons — Volume 4 date: None words: 56758 flesch: 72 summary: There have been many great conquerors and warriors who have Waded through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, but they were great men, with great objects, with grand plans to carry out, whose benefits they thought would be more than an equivalent for the suffering they caused. It was placed on the floor, around which we soon gathered, and, with grateful hearts, we got away with it all, in an incredibly short space of time, while many men and boys looked on, enjoying our ludicrous attitudes and manners. keywords: andersonville; andrews; boys; came; captain; city; cold; come; condition; confederacy; country; day; days; dead; death; escape; exchange; feet; fire; florence; food; general; ground; guards; half; left; life; line; man; men; miles; morning; negro; new; night; number; officers; place; prisoners; rations; rebel; river; running; savannah; saw; sherman; sick; south; stockade; thought; time; train; war; way; wilmington; winder cache: 4260.txt plain text: 4260.txt item: #7 of 8 id: 52121 author: Sorrel, G. Moxley (Gilbert Moxley) title: Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer date: None words: 81499 flesch: 71 summary: An introduction from Col. Thomas Jordan, the adjutant-general of Beauregard, to General Longstreet fixed his career with that officer, and he was by his side transacting his business and carrying his orders from the start to well-nigh the finish. Say to General Longstreet, with my compliments, that he shall have my best-looking regiment, and that immediately. keywords: army; artillery; attack; battle; bragg; brigade; camp; captain; cavalry; chief; colonel; command; commander; confederate; corps; day; days; division; enemy; field; fine; fire; friends; general; general lee; general longstreet; georgia; good; grant; great; hill; horse; jackson; left; lieutenant; line; longstreet; major; march; men; military; movement; new; officers; orders; position; regiment; richmond; right; river; second; service; soldier; sorrel; south; staff; thought; time; troops; virginia; war; way; work; wounded; years; young cache: 52121.txt plain text: 52121.txt item: #8 of 8 id: 57212 author: Quintard, C. T. (Charles Todd) title: Doctor Quintard, Chaplain C.S.A. and Second Bishop of Tennessee Being His Story of the War (1861-1865) date: None words: 48703 flesch: 68 summary: As a result of the controversy that ensued, General Jackson was required by the Secretary of War to direct General Loring to return with his command to Winchester. So I returned to the Army of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and was enthusiastically received by the officers and members of my regiment; and especially by General Polk and his staff, upon which I found my dear friends Colonel Harry Yeatman, Colonel William B. Richmond and Colonel William D. Gale. keywords: army; battle; bishop; captain; church; city; colonel; command; confederate; day; diocese; enemy; following; friend; general; georgia; good; house; john; left; lieutenant; major; man; men; miles; morning; mountain; nashville; night; officers; order; personal; place; polk; quintard; regiment; rev; service; sewanee; soldiers; south; southern; sunday; tennessee; time; university; virginia; war; way; work; wounded cache: 57212.txt plain text: 57212.txt